Fallout 4 Has Over 110,000 Lines Of Spoken Dialogue

Bethesda's open-world RPGs have become progressively smaller over the years (Skyrim being the exception), though this has resulted in more focused and interesting worlds. Fallout 4 will match the developer's previous title in land size, though it is splurging on another front -- dialogue. And not a little bit either.

I'm all for more story and character... but I've never felt that these were Bethesda's weak points. The narratives have always been solid, what's often let games such as Oblivion down is the lack of variety in voices.

At some point you have to accept that recording (and paying) hundreds of people just to add some diversity is impractical, but hopefully the studio has done its best to reduce the aural sameness of its latest creation.

its alot more just because of the addition of a voiced protagonist. if it wasnt for that amount of dialong would be likely half that. i mean iirc witcher 3 had 130,000 lines of dialog and i think each mass effect game was around 100k as well

I really hope combat is more fluid and characters more full of life, the animations seemed so mechanical. Bethesda open world games just seem to have a wonkyness about them. But who I am to judge not every game is made for every body and Skyrim so many years after release is still 13th on the top played list.

Wonderful! One of the great things about The Witcher 3 was that pretty much every quest, even the tiny ones had great, or at least decent, voice acting. It really made the world come alive in so many ways and made each of those tiny, usually inconsequential, quests worth doing. I imagine that with Bethesda's usual flair for story and dialog, especially in the Fallout universe, will make for an extremely compelling game just in quest receipt and completion alone, not even considering the rest of the game.

It doesnt matter how many lines they have - if two seperate chars say the same line, straight away you get reminded its actors reading a script. Immersion gone. Honestly i would rather bethesda just make a beautiful world with no dialog.

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